Thank you to everyone who shared and voted in the most recent Accessibility and Disability Section election. While the Steering Committee was extremely pleased that it was a competitive race for our four vacancies, no one ran for the position of Vice Chair/Chair-Elect. Thus, it is necessary to hold a second election, and we are grateful to second-year Steering Committee member Joe Schill for nominating himself.
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Candidate:
Joe Schill, Senior Archivist, Rakow Research...
Help shape the future of the Society of American Archivists' Students and New Professionals Section (SNAP)!
The SAA-SNAP Section provides educational outreach that furthers professional development, dialogue, and engagement. We host educational and networking webinars, twitter-chats, and other events; oversee the development and dialogue on our SNAP blog; help raise awareness of SAA’s vast professional resources (career development webinars, resume reviews, mentoring, job and internship boards...
The Native American Archives Section, on behalf of the Archival Repatriation Committee, is soliciting testimonials of archival repatriation, broadly construed as defined in the newly adopted Principles in Indigenous Archival Repatriation (PINAR).
We especially invite examples of efforts to physically return archival collections or documents, or to transfer ownership and control of such collections to traditional owners or Indigenous nations. We welcome examples that were successful,...
Thank you to our excellent candidate for standing in the 2023 Public Library Archives and Special Collections (PLASC) Section election. Please take some time to review the candidate statement below so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for one Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a two-year term.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair/Chair Candidates
Charmaine Bonner
Supervising Archivist...
(The following announcement was shared on the section listserv on September 11:)
The Section member's vote to adopt the new section name, "Solo Archivists Section" resulted in a 72.73% vote in favor of adoption, with a 27.27% vote against the adoption. Given this positive response, the new section name and updated bylaws have been submitted for approval by SAA Council, which will hopefully happen soon. I will notify you as soon as we get official approval of our name change. Thanks everyone so...
Standards Annual Report, 2022-2023
Vice Co-Chair Candidate
Caroline Collins
Biography
My name is Caroline Collins (she/her) and I am a local records archivist at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. I received bachelor’s degrees in Information Science and History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and I earned my MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021. While in Austin, I interned at the Briscoe Center for American History. Prior to my current position, I worked part-time as a library...
Ben Blake, Director, George Meany Labor Archives, University of Maryland, College Park
Steering Committee Statement
Before becoming the Director of the George Meany Labor Archives, University of Maryland, College Park in 2016, I had significant experience in labor archives, including two years at San Francisco State's Labor Archives and Research
Center and have been responsible for the archives of union records and labor related collections in Cleveland, Youngstown and Baltimore. I hold a BA in...
Vice Chair/Chair Elect Candidates:
Sophia McGuire
Biography: Sophia has been in the records & archives field since 2010, beginning her work as a student assistant in the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at Ohio State. In 2013 Sophia pursued an MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh, with a focus in Archives & Records Management. Since then, Sophia has worked in a variety of capacities as a records manager & archivist, primarily in government records. Her work has encompassed...
Exciting stuff! The video of the 2023 VMS meeting has been posted here, and the approved standing rules have also been added to the website.
The Archivists and Archives of Color section is excited to announce the 2023 Membership Directory! So far we have collected over 160 entries. This year we created both a website and PDF version:
Website version
PDF version
We are also reopening the form for those who missed the first round and would like to be included in the directory. The form will close on August 31, 2023.
If you have an update or correction to your existing entry, or any questions, please email us at aacr.roundtable@gmail...
Steering Committee for Archival History Section, 2023-2024
Dane Flansburgh, Chair
Natalie Worsham, Vice-Chair
Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger, Early Career Member
Trevor Alvord, Member-at-Large
Caitlin Oiye Coon, Member-at-Large
Sebastian Modrow, Member-at-Large
The Summer 2023 Newsletter includes:
Meet Your Fellow Archivist: Ceila Emmelhainz
News from The Frick Collection by Sally Brazil
An internship Highlight from the Virginal Museum of Fine Arts by Nuelle R. Johnson
A Collection Highlight from the Corning Museum of Glass by Sarah Alender
A Report on Digitizing Travel Sketchbooks of Frances Prindle Taft by Madalyn Rehrman
A Report on Organizing Vertebrate Paleontology Archives at AMNH by Ruth E. Hurwitz
The 2023 Privacy and Confidentiality Section election results are in, and the section leadership is pleased to congratulate:
Elizabeth Russell – 2023-2024 Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Anu Kasarabada – 2023-2024 Steering Committee Member
Leslie Schuyler – 2023-2024 Steering Committee Member
Ashlyn Velte – 2023-2024 Steering Committee Member
The Election results for the Lone Arrangers Section are in! Thanks so much to everyone who volunteered for positions and voted. Below are the results:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Hilary Swett
Newsletter Editor: Allison Bundy
Regional Representatives Co-Lead: Alison Quirion
Please congratulate Hilary, Allison and Alison on their new positions!
Julie Yamashita
Chair
Lone Arrangers Section
The roadmap is an active and evolving document, developed by the SAA Committee on Research, Data and Assessment, and represents research interests that have been identified by members across the profession. The roadmap will help shape priorities and opportunities that advance broader professional interests.
Adopted SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap, v 1.4
Your feedback is sought on Roadmaps ongoing development -- please share your input using this survey.
Congratulations to the three new members elected to the Archivists of Religious Collections Section Steering Committee (ARCS)!
Beaudry Allen, Vice-Chair begins a two year term as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect.
Rhiannon Allen-Roberts begins a two-year term as General Steering Committee Member.
Trevor Alvord begins a two-year term as General Steering Committee Member.
Continuing in their present positions for one more year are:
Erin Louthen, Chair
Mary Grace Kosta, General Steering Committee...
Congratulations to the new members of the Accessibility & Disability Section steering committee!
The following candidates have been elected as steering committee members: Dylan Goodwin, Amanda McGrory, and Tarienne Mitchell.
Jess Bolwar has been elected as the steering committee early-career member.
Thank you to all of the candidates who stood for the 2023 election.
The recording from the 2023 LAS Annual Meeting on June 12 is now available! Please click here to view.
During the virtual meeting, the LAS Steering Committee recognized our 20th anniversary as an official SAA group (originally a roundtable, now a section) and introduced important updates, initiatives, and future plans for the section. We also welcomed Christina Zamon, Head of Special Collections and Archives at Georgia State University, who presented on her soon-to-be-released book, Alone in...
We hope to see you at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the College & University Archives Section! You must be registered to attend. Please follow this link to get registered. We hope to see you there!
Version 1.3 of the SAA Research and Innovation Roadmap -- an active and evolving document, developed by the SAA Committee on Research, Data and Assessment, and asserts the critical research needs and gaps that have been identified by members across the profession. The roadmap reflects an analysis of current and emerging research, assessment, and data needs, to frame and inform work the profession might undertake in the years to come.
Roadmap 1.3
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Please do not forget to register for our 2023 annual meeting on July 11, 2023, 12:00-1:30 pm ET/11:00 am-12:30 pm CT/9:00-10:30 am PT. Registration is under SAA Connect/Events.
In addition to summarizing the activities and achievements of this year, two international archives will offer presentations at our meeting. Alison Surtees will present the work of the Manchester Digital Music Archive in the UK and Boróka Lipka will talk about the recently developed archives of Trafó House of...
Newest version of the VMS Bibliography is here, thanks to the hard work of Angela Schwartz!
Dear colleagues,
We will be holding the 2023 Local Government Records Section election soon!
Thank you so much to our excellent candidate for standing in the election. Please take some time to review their candidate statement so you can get to know them.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a two-year term
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Sophia McGuireRecords Management AnalystCity of Gahanna, Ohio
Candidate Bio: Sophia has been in the records & archives field...
Greetings LAS Members:
Election ballots are now open! We hope that you will take a moment to vote and assist the section with future transitions. As a section, we are voting for new Steering Committee members for the following positions: Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect, Newsletter Editor, and Regional Representative. To learn more about the candidates for each of these positions, please visit the following page:
https://www2.archivists.org/groups/lone-arrangers-section/meet-the-2023-las-election-...
